Features of student financial aid packages, including outside scholarship reporting and summer earnings requirements, can cause financial and logistical challenges for students. The Office of Financial Aid is working with the Undergraduate Council of Students to address these challenges through the ...
Dean of the College Maud Mandel and Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin P’12 will present an initial proposal for a winter term at Tuesday’s faculty meeting, Mandel said. The proposed Winter Session will feature “a handful of intense, creative experimental courses in January” that span three ...
Updated October 7, 2015 at 10:30 p.m. The University has clarified the designation of Residential Peer Leaders, Brown University Dining Services student supervisors and Meiklejohn Peer Advisors as “responsible employees,” dictating that they must report any knowledge of cases of sexual misconduct ...
Over 100,000 people came to Providence last weekend for the 10th annual “Flames of Hope: A Celebration of Life” event held by the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation. The downtown gathering featured a variety of programs and speakers Saturday and races Sunday. In past years, the weekend ...
Brown and more than 80 other institutions have joined a new coalition that aims to provide high school students with an alternative to the Common Application. The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success will offer applicants a set of online tools starting in January 2016 in the hopes of “leveling ...
The University and the U.S. Naval War College have continued to strengthen their partnership established last June, focusing on greater collaboration in research and teaching as well as the creation of a new fellows program. Since the partnership formed, both institutions have hosted panels and lectures ...
Through a live concert, speakers and a conference this weekend, student environmental group emPOWER worked to raise awareness of environmental issues related to climate change and social justice. The concert, hosted in partnership with the national organization Know Tomorrow, was held in Salomon 101 ...
Student and Employee Accessibility Services recently launched a new program this semester that connects first-years with disabilities to sophomore, junior and senior mentors. The Bob and Charlie Poole Program was created to “build a community … with an enhanced level of support,” said Jonathan ...
Seventy-eight percent of potential new faculty members who were offered positions at the University during the 2014-15 academic year accepted their positions, said Associate Dean of the Faculty Joel Revill. The percentage, known as the faculty yield rate, is calculated by taking the number of faculty ...
The University boasts a geographically diverse student body, with students hailing from all 50 states and 71 countries. Yet a portion of this community has developed a deep familiarity with the neighborhood before attending Brown: 14 to 16 undergraduates from Providence matriculate each year, wrote ...
The Alpert Medical School’s new MD-ScM dual-degree program in Primary Care-Population Medicine — the first of its kind in the United States — enrolled 16 students to its first class, said Paul George ’01 MD’05, assistant professor of family medicine and director of the program. The PC-PM ...
The number of forcible sex offenses reported on campus in 2014 doubled since 2013 and nearly tripled since 2012, according to the University’s Annual Security Report released Wednesday. Forty-three cases of forcible sex offenses were reported last year compared to 21 cases in 2013 and 16 in 2012. Disciplinary ...
The University’s endowment reached a new high of $3.3 billion in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, earning a 5.7 percent return, according to a University press release. This year’s return falls far short of the 16.1 percent mark the endowment posted last year. But this year was a less profitable ...
Across campus, programs like the Gender, Power and Sexuality workshop — formerly FemSex — and Sexual Assault Peer Education foster conversations to help students examine issues of identity and gendered violence. Amongst these discussions, the new Men’s Story Project takes a novel approach. Formed ...
As students settle into their dormitories for the semester, those residing in Buxton, Chapin, Harkness, Sears and Wayland Houses are benefitting from renovations completed this summer. These five dorms saw the introduction of new carpets, furniture and paint, as well as updates to kitchens and lounge ...
The Writing Center has suspended its second effort in its search for a new director as part of a wider rethinking of the University’s writing program, said Christopher Dennis, deputy dean of the College. After Kathleen McSharry, former associate dean of the College and interim Writing Center director, ...
Some single parents in Providence now have a source of steady income and economic opportunities through the venture Tink Knit, launched this semester and co-founded by Julia Xu ’17 and Julia Xu ’15. Tink Knit teaches single mothers how to knit products like hats and then sells those products, returning ...
Eleven students were elected to leadership positions on the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday. Four of the eight elections for UCS leadership positions were uncontested. The night’s most hotly contested UCS race was for ...
President Obama’s proposal to designate three ocean canyons and four seamounts off the coast of Cape Cod as part of a marine national monument has proven somewhat controversial, eliciting both support from environmentalists and concern from fishermen and other stakeholders. The National Oceanic and ...
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